Wauconda Illinois USA-1968: Firefighters Battle Raging House Fire

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Year1968
Decade1960s
LocationWauconda, Illinois, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1968 Wauconda Illinois

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Firefighters Battle Raging House Fire — Clip Details

Firefighters battle a raging house fire in Wauconda, Illinois, in 1968. Shot on 8mm film, the footage captures intense flames engulfing a home, thick black smoke billowing into the sky, and emergency personnel using hoses to extinguish the blaze. A red fire truck is visible as firefighters work to control the inferno in a rural residential setting. The scene is viewed through a dark frame, adding to the vintage, home movie feel with natural film grain and color degradation. This archival footage offers a dramatic look at a real emergency from the late 1960s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124336263

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Commercial Direct license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

Flags come from automated catalog metadata, not a legal opinion. The source is an original 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie reel. For high-stakes commercial use, request a full rights review.

Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel 1137 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: barn building darrell rd
Reel-level year note: 1968
Reel-level location note: illinois
Date: 1968 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: Wauconda, Illinois, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1960s documentary or educational edits needing real 8mm footage of firefighters responding to a rural residential structure fire in Illinois.
Period detail: The red fire truck, hose lines, rural road setting, and 8mm color stock support a late-1960s emergency-response view, with Wauconda, Illinois and 1968 supplied by metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged bystander perspective, watching firefighters work from a fixed distance as flames and smoke overtake the house.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a burning house, heavy black smoke, orange flames, water streams, firefighters or onlookers, a red fire truck, trees, utility poles, and dark film-frame edges.
Film character: The footage has an 8mm home-movie texture with soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, dark gate edges, and color shifts that emphasize its physical-film origin.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a short emergency-response insert, a fire-disaster cutaway, or a memory beat in a sequence about local risk, public safety, or community history.
Historical context: The frames show a residential fire response in a semi-rural setting, with firefighters using hoses while bystanders or crew figures remain at a cautious distance.
Research note: People are visible at a distance and a residence is shown, so likeness and property review may be needed separately from copyright or footage licensing.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1968 Wauconda Illinois house fire footage, 8mm firefighters battling flames, vintage fire truck and hose response, or rural residential fire home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then Wauconda or Illinois material from 1968, then broader 1960s firefighting, house fire, or emergency-response clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 Wauconda, Illinois 8mm frame showing a red fire truck, hose spray, figures, and a house fire with thick smoke. — Firefighters work hoses near a burning house as smoke rises behind trees.

1968 Wauconda, Illinois frame with flames consuming a house, black smoke, hose spray, trees, and small figures nearby. — Flames spread through the house while firefighters direct water from outside the structure.

1968 Wauconda, Illinois 8mm frame showing a house engulfed by flames, dense smoke, firefighters, and hose spray. — Dense smoke rolls above the roofline as water streams into the burning structure.

1968 Wauconda, Illinois frame of a house fire with orange flames, heavy smoke, hose spray, trees, and distant people. — Figures watch or work near the burning house as smoke and flames dominate the frame.

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